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by Udo 12y ago
The Heise article says so - arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks. A link is enough. The fine can be up to € 300k or six years in prison. The Spanish education minister hails this as a pioneering effort
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by Udo 12y ago
This really baffles me. Does that mean it's impossible to refer to a person's religiosity in general without offending them if you don't provide the exact name of their faith? So the majority of religious people don't ac
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by Udo 12y ago
It looks like this thread is being moderated off the front page, but it's something that I think is interesting too. I was astonished about the overwhelming response the church software got. Don't get me wrong, it's a great e
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by Udo 12y ago
This is less surprising to me than the gaussian reversal, because this motion-deblurring technique relies on several images of the same object. It's still cool, though :)
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by Udo 12y ago
Servers have a lot of nice features that are hard to replicate in a totally decentralized environment - I say this as someone who experimented a lot with different peering structures for a hobby project. And indeed, this too seems to rely o
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by Udo 12y ago
Thanks for making me look deeper into what's going on with common blurring algorithms. My instincts were clearly wrong here, for years I thought reversing blurs wasn't feasible in practice. I was very, very wrong.
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by Udo 12y ago
I see that I deserved a schooling on gaussian blur, but > You think the technique mentioned in the article doesn't leak data? yes, I do think it leaks data, which was the correct half of my comment, actually. Not that it m
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by Udo 12y ago
A nice Gaussian blur would probably be fine, it's specifically the pixelation technique that's leaking data.
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by Udo 12y ago
I didn't know that, so I dug around for the cause. From a recent NYP article: Takei married his husband in 2008 and Shatner became enraged when he claimed he wasn’t invited. He ranted against Takei in an online interview. [..
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by Udo 12y ago
You're probably overthinking this. While the Pi is limited in processing power and I/O, if it's really a small community it will run a forum just fine. Here's what to look out for: 1) Make sure you run NginX, it's f
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by Udo 12y ago
Old, seriously? The guy is in his mid-forties and you make him sound like he lives in a retirement home.
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by Udo 12y ago
Why would a bot vote for this instead of any other article?
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by Udo 12y ago
I think this could be some kind of exploit being tested. The upvotes could be explained by a voting ring or some kind of bot doing it. But apparently there are not enough people who flagged this, so it remains on the front page. Looking at
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by Udo 12y ago
Interestingly, it's received 7+ upvotes regardless, apparently just for the title alone.
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by Udo 12y ago
> It's the same as some doctor coming to you with the words "The Internet is not working". The medical equivalent of that would be a patient coming in with "doc, I've go a pain", and when the MD asks where
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by Udo 12y ago
I thought this looked less like an article and more like a paid shill piece. Seems that impression was correct.
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by Udo 12y ago
> and it was chaos and panic and unbearably freezing cold at a horrific -9C. Hey, that is pretty grim. Winters here have been pretty mild recently, I just hope nothing unfortunate happens to the North Atlantic Drift, or it's goi
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by Udo 12y ago
> so, how much would it cost to put in a ductless in the bedrooms? I didn't install central air either, it's basic split units (probably the precursors to your moon rocket cooler) where the only thing you really need to get t
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by Udo 12y ago
That's because 25.5°C is not anywhere near the peaks we're seeing here. Right now, it's nice and cool, scattered clouds, exactly 25°C outside where I live. Nobody would dream of turning on the AC right now, in fact it would b
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by Udo 12y ago
Heh, recently I seem to be unable to say anything on HN that isn't received with extreme skepticism and controversy ;) First off, I was talking about Germany when I said the reasons for not having AC in private households is that &quot
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by Udo 12y ago
There is a ubiquitous phenomenon in Germany, called "catching a draft". It's a real thing which as far as I can tell only befalls Germans, with physical symptoms and everything. On top of that and somewhat paradoxically they
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by Udo 12y ago
Yes, of course, it would be a miserable place without AC, no question. The climate is pretty stable though, with the exception of rainy season. But the point is, it gets just as intolerable (maybe even more so) in Germany.
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by Udo 12y ago
Here in Germany, private households generally don't have an AC either. Office buildings do though, thankfully, as even those sturdy ancient stone monsters do heat up quite a bit. The thing is, while there is an intense heat wave in alm
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by Udo 12y ago
I think everybody here already arrived at that conclusion but then they got interested in the actual puzzle.
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by Udo 12y ago
The criminal people don't need to stay together, the thief can stay behind as long as she is alone. You can hence use the policeman to ferry a son/daughter. The next challenge is if you go from there and ferry one side of the fami
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by Udo 12y ago
I think there may be several solutions to this, one is: P+T > P > P+S > P+T > F+S > F > F+M > M > P+T > F > F+M > M > M+D > P+T > P+D > P > P+T Where P=policeman T=thief S=son F=father M=mothe
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by Udo 12y ago
What makes you think I don't know Lisp? You didn't even read my comments, did you?
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by Udo 12y ago
This view only makes sense if you believe one language is enough. One language that has it all figured out, one language that is the right solution for any task. Even if such a language existed (be it Lisp or not), which is unrealistic, t
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by Udo 12y ago
You could choose to understand it that way, but only if you want to kill the conversation. Which is fine, of course. Judging by the amount of controversy mirrored in the voting of my comment (I suspect moderator intervention was involved as
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by Udo 12y ago
That's not the issue. It's about whether you think that Lisp is the only objectively correct answer whenever the question arises "what language are we going to use for this?". Willful ignorance about other languages and

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